#boss 4

you can VERY easily fit in a spear in this vulnerability window for widow instead of a nail, i havent missed this once in runs, the window is very large. particularly useful if you have 8 silk because it allows you to do another silk spear when she spawns in for her second phase

Lace 1's parry only activates if you hit her from the direction she's facing.
Does not work against Phantom or Lace 2

In later patches, she will continue to parry you while attacking if you slash too close to her (same with Lace 2)

1. Pogo dash turn around nail tech
2. Lace not parrying when hit from behind
3. Lace will parry hits if the nail's orange hitbox overlaps with the attack
4. Lace not parrying
5. Pogos don't get parried either

Silkless Bell Beast 5n starts
dash dash jump: 5n 5s s5s 3s
dash jump dash: 5n 6s s4s 3s
dash jump jump: 5n 6s s5s 2s
If you miss a nail, you can 4s on scream

Fixed and improved version of the bell beast phase skip/quick kill. Credit to Vex for the opener.
this saves about 10s with best rng, compared to best rng without phase skip. It saves a bit less with worse rng (because you have to avoid hitting a bunch for bad rng patterns). Still worth going for, as the worst rng with this only loses 2s to the best possible without phase skipping.
First 3 videos are example fights with different rngs, showing how to deal with charge/leap on 80 hp and showing that even if you miss a hit somewhere you can still barely get the quick kill by squeezing in 4 needle hits + silk spear on the scream (you must do a nail turnaround to get this).
Last video is a voiceover that explains all the strats and cues in detail
Forgot to mention in vid, but bell beast can do max 2 bell bursts in a row, and seems to be 3 in a row for charge/leap (it counts both so it could be charge charge leap)
I deleted the old bell beast post since this is just better.

Edit: video was wrong about silk amount in the video, you need 8 silk going in, which means 3 hits between the web in the silk spear room and starting bell beast